Locke's clone went to the Golden Crown Mountain Library.
The grafted Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow was at least a week from maturity, so he asked Douglas and the Mason Witch to take care of it for him.
Locke himself went to the library on Golden Crown Mountain and began looking up materials on Golden Magic and Botany Spell Models.
On Ackerman's recommendation, Locke gathered a stack of references and sat down at a library table.
Seven other Second-Ring Wizards were in the reading area.
They glanced up at Locke, then returned to the materials in their hands.
One read with one hand while using the other to simulate a Spell Model from the text.
Locke sat on a stool and swept his palm across the tabletop, simulating an Apprentice Level Golden Magic Spell Model. Golden sand on the table gathered into a golden finger.
"The Spell Models of pure Golden Magic are far too different from those of Botany."
Locke looked at the ten basic Golden Magic characters in the book.
"These are the ten common building blocks of Golden Magic Spell Models. Once I learn them, casting Apprentice Level Golden Magic shouldn't be a problem."
"Wizard Apprentices believe the basic units of a Spell Model are magic characters, just as the basic units of Botany Spell Models are the twenty Ogham Tree Runes."
"The basic magic runes of Golden Magic are called Chryses Golden Script. There are only ten of them."
"The higher a Spell Model's ring, the more runes it uses and the more complex it becomes. A simple Botany Cantrip Model might contain only a dozen or so magic runes, while a Spell Model approaching a First-Ring Spell might contain nearly a hundred magic characters."
"But a Formal Wizard should recognize that both Ogham Tree Runes